Lunch with the Widows: What I Learned About Living After My Husband Died

Grief and loss are an inescapable part of mortality. In one form or another, they will touch all our lives. Yet, despite being so common, the path of grief and loss can be unbearably lonely, and healing can seem to be an unreachable destination.

When Dr. Susan Walton lost her husband of 43 years during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, she found herself quarantined and completely alone, both physically and emotionally. Hundreds of miles away from her children and grandchildren, she h...